Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | conflicting dietary needs!

Help! I have conflicting dietary needs and just can't seem to figure out what to do about it.

Without going into my LONG colon history, briefly: I have had chronic constipation since age 4. Extreme intestinal gas, with great difficulty expelling since about age 25. Painful IBS attacks began around age 30 and lasted 6 years. Then they LEFT, but the extreme gas with difficulty expelling lasted. Got a little better a few years ago. Now (I am age 57) I began to have extreme hypoglycemia while on a raw food diet. Found out that my adrenals are shot as well. The Doctor, who is an MD practicing Alternative Medicine (a really great wholistic doctor) put me on a high-fat animal protien diet for the adrenals-hypo. When I started the raw food diet I weighted 109 lbs. I am very small, and was a bit fat at that weight. Perfect for me would be 95 lbs. But on the raw diet I went down to 89 lbs and was so hypo, so the dr. gave me the fat-animal protein, which yes, caused me to gain some weight and helped my hypo. HOWEVER, about 4 months into this diet all "heck" broke loose with my extreme intestinal gas and spastic colon. I don't have pain attack again, thank god, but the colon does spas up with the gas (tons and tons of gas) and I am unable to expell it! It nearly drives me insane. Then my constipation got much worse, too...not to mention severe irritaton of the colon lining after a gas-spas attack all night. So now I have cut out dairy, cut out all sugars, including fruit, as I KNOW I have severe candida. I am still eating lots of sesmae and virgin olive oil...even putting in up my rectum, per dr's suggestion...eating broth of beef bones with livers, cooked then pureed and put into as veggie stew. I also eat soaked almond and pine nut puree...VERY soft, with oatmeal.

I KNOW I need to get off the beef fat and the oil fat. But I am eating so little now I weigh only 80 lbs! I have taken away the dairy and the sugar, if I remove the fat too, I will disappear. I am a skeleton now.
WHAT IS YOUR SUGGESTION?

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Maia Nartoomid
IBS-C, spastic gas
Kaua'i, Hawai'i

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